Agribusiness Service Center

Vision

To create a thriving agricultural community on Hawaiʻi Island by leveraging public-private collaboration to maximize growth opportunities. We aim to optimize the provision of tailored public and private services to small farms, agribusinesses, and service providers, fostering sustainable growth and innovation.

Mission

Our mission is to empower Hawaiʻi Island's farmers by providing access to a broad range of useful, low-cost services offered locally, enhancing farm profitability and productivity. By bridging the gap between public support and private investment, we strive to cultivate a synergistic environment where public initiatives attract and stimulate private investment rather than displacing it. We seek to elevate small-scale, informal, and part-time producers into higher levels of income and opportunity, integrating them more fully into the mainstream agricultural economy and enabling them to produce more without increasing their workload.

Strategic Outcomes

A. Public/private collaboration and coordination strengthens the linkages between supply and demand of local agricultural products, services and input supplies.

B. A sustainable market is established for local service providers to increase the availability of market data, analysis and market development opportunities that sustainably build regional competitiveness.

C. A sustainable market is established for training, research and technology services utilized by local agribusinesses, cooperatives and producer associations to grow production and increase profitability.